Quotes About Understanding

In seeking truth, you have to get both sides of a story." – WALTER CRONKITE One

One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known.

Be anxious for nothing. . . . And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6,7

All my life I've been waiting to understand. Look what God has done for me!

An unrenewed mind is a mind that lacks the knowledge of God's Word. A lack of knowledge about the Word keeps us from maturing spiritually.

Sometimes it is only a True Friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak. Somebody who has spent a lot of time with us, and listens carefully to what we are trying to say, and tries to understand.

Hmm. I wonder if you got stuck somewhere in the last twenty pages, because you're the first one to complain that this book is boring. What's the last part you remember?

Actually, Dan," I answer, "you're asking me to be a mind reader, and no, teachers don't get paid for that. Think about it. If you don't even know when you are stuck, how am I supposed to know?

That's what teachers get paid for, isn't it? How am I supposed to know when I don't get something? I'm just a kid.

I'm sick and tired of you telling the class that it's our job to know when we know and know when we don't know You're the teacher. Aren't you the one who is supposed to know

They rarely stopped while reading a piece to try to repair their confusion. They kept doggedly on until they finished the "assignment," even though they had no idea what they were reading.

students don't expect to understand what they read.

They wait to be told what it is they have read. If no one does that, they just don't get it.

If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.

Consciesness is just like a light particle. It may discover only the surface it can reach. While on our own, we like to believe that what we see is real. But when we come together, what we see is truth. Here is why we should learn to connect, understand and discover the world we share, with one another.

That we can see and understand everything just as well alive as dead, only when we're alive we don't have the time, or the peace of mind, or the inclination to see and understand what we could. We're too busy rushing to our graves.

Those who speak know nothing. Those who know are silent.

A while after I was old enough to understand this story, I pointed out how backwards it was to have fled to the nation that had driven them out of theirs, but they never copped to the irony of it. They needed to believe they'd done the right thing and that it made sense.

I mean, does anyone ever talk about why people are crossing? I can promise you it's not with some grand ambition to come here and ruin everything for the gringo chingaos. People are desperate, man.

But my dad had argued that he didn't know the language of cars. To him, everything had its own language—the language of breakfast, the language of business, the language of politics, and on and on. In Spanish he knew all the languages, but for as long as he'd been speaking English, he believed he knew it only in certain realms.

We know nothing about those we love, except our need of their presence

Él no quería hijos y Patricia no quería un marido: a veces es más fácil saber lo que no se quiere.

Some of them were confused and angry, but given the same circumstances, I was convinced that I would have turned out just like them. It was the difference in where we were born, and to whom, that separated us---not the difference of who we were.

You can't reason with fear